TrekkieTechie

The absolute positioning was necessary in order to specify exactly how far from the top of the page each div would be. Certainly if there is a better way I would be delighted to hear it, but I'm relatively new at CSS and don't know the ins and outs.

Thanks Wickham. I actually already worked out a version using an IE conditional statement, but was hoping someone might have a bright idea as to why the file input in particular is misbehaving. I'm doubly irritated because it was all perfect, but while troubleshooting an unrelated issue I had to move the file inputs to a different div. Turned out the issue wasn't placement, so I tried to move them back, and no dice -- I've been kicking myself for not saving a backup of the original version. Oh well.

If you open this link in Firefox, everything looks good. if you open it in Internet Explorer, the file input fields are all off to the left, as though they're (almost) being centered on the left border of their container instead of the center of the page. Does anyone have any ideas as to why? My HTML validates as 4.01 Strict, and my stylesheet validates as CSS 2.1

Thanks for the code, Eric -- I used it as a jumping-off point for my own validation routines. Just wanted to let everyone know that I got my forms working properly and validating well. Thanks for your help.

You guys and your simple, logical solutions... that hadn't occurred to me at all. Thanks. It will have to be Javascript for now, as I don't know a lick of PHP, but I'll look into changing that in the near future. Thanks again.

A minor quibble, but on your Portfolio page, consider changing 'Services Offered' to 'Services Rendered' or 'Services Provided' -- at first glance I was a little confused and thought you were advertising partners who offered services that compliment your own. Looks great!

Hi all, I am working on a site which interfaces with two different third-party form processors (web-form-buddy for validation and secure data transmission, SendThisFile for large file uploads). In order to achieve the desired effect, it's necessary to have two separate forms on the same page (one, INFO, which goes through web-form-buddy's CGI script, and one, UPLOAD, which copies some data from the INFO form and has file upload fields which goes through SendThisFile's servers). I currently have a working page which, when you hit the Submit button at the bottom of the page, fires the INFO submission to web-form-buddy and then fires the UPLOAD form to SendThisFile (achieved using this method). If the user correctly inputs all required data, it works like a charm. However, if the INFO form contains errors and fails validation, the UPLOAD form is still submitted. Is there a way to have the INFO form report back whether or not it was successfully submitted, and only fire the UPLOAD submission if INFO passes its validation? Thanks in advance for any help/advice.